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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Only tangentially related, but this post made me think about how everyone historically sees the day when Windows stopped being built on top of DOS as an advancement. If that ever happened on Linux, where there was no longer a fully functional base Linux system without graphical system libraries, my entire reality would shatter beneath my feet.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I don't think the reason people liked the full switch to NT is because of GUI "enforcement", but rather that x86 DOSs had some historical limitations, both because of the OS and because of peculiarities regarding the IBM PC platform (like "conventional", "extended" and "high" memory, or many DOS programs expecting real mode operation) which NT and its HAL abstracted away, making it more stable, though not as stable as any base *nix system.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's ls on PowerShell

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    [–] 44 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    How much fun would it be if each additional R showed you another level down the directory tree though?

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Thank you. I've just created a few aliases for ls, lss, lsss, lssss.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh gods I can't remember if there's a DOS command for that. I've finally forgotten. ^I'm^ ^free^

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    ls works on Windows just fine. PowerShell understands this command since a long time, maybe even since the very beginning (not looking through the git commits, just to find out).

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 4 months ago* (15 children)

    heck, you're right.

    also dir works on linux but it is not as pretty, (i am finding out as we speak)

    This meme is pivoting to education bait?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Well who uses powershell? Common people open command prompt and it doesn't support ls.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    I can tell it's been a while since you used windows 😁.

    Some of us are forced to btw.

    Modern "command prompt" on windows is called Terminal and supports both PowerShell and CMD commands.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Well who uses powershell? Common people open command prompt and it doesn’t support ls.

    Windows Terminal is shipped with Windows and defaults to PowerShell. Too bad Windows ships some ancient PS version by default but winget install Microsoft.PowerShell isn't that complicated.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Who is the β€œcommon person” listing directory contents via the command line instead of the explorer window?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Tech workers

    I don't. Not that this has to be true for others but I use the command line for ping, ipconfig, and winget.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • Uhhh, look south?

    I ain't mudded in a while but I can dig if you can dig

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